EFREM
Knight
a video dedicated to the Samnites\Safinim by RAI (italian TV) in 1989:
http://www.scuola.rai.it/articoli/i-sanniti-popolazioni-italiche-antiche/4129/default.aspx
and another one regarding Messapi and Apuli in the Third century b.C. :
http://www.scuola.rai.it/articoli/gli-apuli-popolazioni-italiche-antiche/5270/default.aspx
notice it's pretty slow to download and slow to watch we used to make very rhetorical documentaries, but at least based on history rather than Hollywood.
sorry if you don't understand italian I can very willingly translate for you.
However what is more important than words it's the landscape aspect. I'd like to focus the attention on the very dry condition of the terrain, the situation of the mountainous and rugged territory inhabited by the Samnites and in general of central- southerner Italy till the South where there's little probability to see any kind of Emerald grass like.
and of course the importance of the Mediterranean maquis for the flora.
in addition to this to make great and real scenes I suggest to make Cyclopean walls (huge rocks which made the walls around the city, the ancient people believed the Giants did them) and to preferably set the Samnites forts and cities on the top of a hill.
http://www.scuola.rai.it/articoli/i-sanniti-popolazioni-italiche-antiche/4129/default.aspx
and another one regarding Messapi and Apuli in the Third century b.C. :
http://www.scuola.rai.it/articoli/gli-apuli-popolazioni-italiche-antiche/5270/default.aspx
notice it's pretty slow to download and slow to watch we used to make very rhetorical documentaries, but at least based on history rather than Hollywood.
sorry if you don't understand italian I can very willingly translate for you.
However what is more important than words it's the landscape aspect. I'd like to focus the attention on the very dry condition of the terrain, the situation of the mountainous and rugged territory inhabited by the Samnites and in general of central- southerner Italy till the South where there's little probability to see any kind of Emerald grass like.
and of course the importance of the Mediterranean maquis for the flora.
in addition to this to make great and real scenes I suggest to make Cyclopean walls (huge rocks which made the walls around the city, the ancient people believed the Giants did them) and to preferably set the Samnites forts and cities on the top of a hill.